Wheelchair athlete wants to be counted in state meets

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Tatyana McFadden doesn?t care if she?s scored the same way as other runners ? the ones without wheelchairs ? as long as her points count.

The 17-year-old Atholton High School junior, who is paralyzed from the waist down, won the right to score points for her school?s track team in a deal brokered with Howard County Public Schools in January.

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